Monica Furlong

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MF was a Christian feminist who began as a journalist and went on to a prolific late-twentieth-century output of books. She published poetry, a couple of novels, stories for children, biographies of remarkable Christians, collected volumes of primary and secondary texts, works on spirituality, and especially analysis of women's relarions with Christianity in general and the Anglican Church in particular, both before and after female ordination became a reality.

Milestones

17 January 1930

MF was born at 29 Kenton Park Avenue, Kenton, near Harrow, just north-west of London. She was the younger of two daughters.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1984

MF edited for the SPCK a collection of essays about the ordination of women, entitled Feminine in the Church.
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17 February 2000

MF published through the SPCK a historical, doctrinal, political, and analytical study of the Church of England (the established church of most of the UK), which she titled by the church's colloquial name: C of E: The State It's in.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

18 October 2001

In Dreamers of Dreams: Tales of the Old Testament, MF re-told some gripping Old Testament narratives. This book has full-colour illustrations by Cherry Denman .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

14 January 2003

MF died of cancer at Umberleigh in Devon. She was called the Church of England 's most influential and creative layperson of the post-war period
GRAS Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod. http://replay.web.archive.org/20081023195744/http://www.gras.org.uk/default.htm.
by the Rev. Mary Robins in a brief obituary on the website of GRAS .
McCurry, Ruth. “Obituaries. Monica Furlong”. The Independent.
De-la-Noy, Michael. “Obituary. Monica Furlong”. The Guardian.

Biography

Birth and Family

17 January 1930

MF was born at 29 Kenton Park Avenue, Kenton, near Harrow, just north-west of London. She was the younger of two daughters.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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